Ford Farmhouse
FORD FARMHOUSE, FORD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1344618
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Ford Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- FORD FARMHOUSE, FORD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1344618
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Ford Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORD FARMHOUSE, FORD STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- FORD FARMHOUSE, FORD STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wellington Without
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 14982 19427
Details
ST11NW WELLINGTON WITHOUT CP FORD STREET
8/190 Ford Farmhouse II
Farmhouse. C16, enlarged C18, refenestrated south front early C19, restored late C20. Roughcast over rubble, brick agricultural wing, slate roofs, half hipped west wing, external stack east gable end marked by lean-to addition, upper part rebuilt in brick, brick stack to hall fireplace, rising from eaves in west wing. Plan : possibly open hall house, celled with 2-bay west wing, agricultural north-east wing, north west agricultural wing demolished. South front: 2 storeys, 1:3: bays, 16-pane sash windows first floor, ground floor 20-pane, with casement in lean-to addition masking external stack, entered on return, main entrance centre, flat roofed wooden columnar porch, panelled door. Rear elevation: chamfered arched door frame and 3-bay brick agricultural wing abutting. Interior: good moulded beams to hall ceiling forming 3 rectangular panels lacking the cross beam one would expect to form a compartment ceiling. South room of wing adjoining with 9-panel chamfered compartment ceiling, stud and panel partition between. Steeply chamfered lateral beam with step and runout stops in northern room with blocked doorway on north front. Evidence of 3 pairs of jointed cruck trusses but not visible in roof space. The building appears to have been reroofed when south front refenestrated.
Listing NGR: ST1498219427
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 271124
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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